45 YEARS AGO

Al Smith of Hereford, Texas, is reported to have bought 200 plain Brahman steer yearlings weighing 700 pounds from Joe Vestal of Astola, Texas, at $13.50 cwt., to put in feedlots at Hereford.

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Walton Kothmann of Menard has bought and shipped five carloads of lambs. Kothmann said lambs are selling at "15 cents a pound, more for the heavier kinds." Ewes cost from $5 to $7 each, he said.

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Gene Benson of Alpine has bought 90 steer calves weighing 447 pounds from L.H. Lockhart of Fort Stockton at 23 cents a pound. He also bought a part load of steer yearlings weighing around 600 pounds from Bill Sohl of Alpine at 23 cents.

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Jack Sloan of San Saba has sold through Roy Harkey and Homer Hobdy of San Angelo, 100 mixed, Brahman-type fat calves to M Systems Grocery chain of San Angelo at 23 cents delivered this week and weighing around 425 pounds.

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Malcolm S. Major of Butte Valley, Colorado, recently sold to the Bob Mayer Company, Denver, one carlot of top-quality yearling steers weighing 648 pounds at $25.25 cwt.

40 YEARS AGO

Paul Newman of Lubbock, Texas, bought one load of purebred horned cows weighing near 1000 pounds, with 400-pound calves on them, at $250 per pair from Gene Fullingem of Petersburg.

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Joe Lemley, San Angelo, bought 100 mixed Angus calves this week from Jack Harding of Pecos and Son Powell of Big Spring. They weighed 475 pounds and brought $22 and $25.

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J.D. Pitman Jr., Hereford, Texas, bought 247 good quality steer calves weighing 351 pounds at $27 cwt. from Wallace Locke of Amarillo and received them last week.

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A.N. Dilley of Borger, Texas, sold to Rogers & Brown, Snyder, 246 mixed age stocker cows at $150 each and 13 three year-old bulls at $225 each.

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From the Classifieds: Nebraska Sandhills Ranch - A choice ranch on main north and south U.S. Highway. 23,220 acres deeded plus 1280 state lease. Compact, well-watered and good modern improvements. 2000 acres wet and semi-wet hay meadows. Carry up to 2000 cows with some cake during winter. A top outfit in every respect. $32 per acre, terms.- Van Schaack Land Co. - Rufus B. Klein, Manager - Denver 2, Colorado.

35 YEARS AGO

Good and choice slaughter lambs topped at $17.50 carrying No. 1 and No. 2 pelts in Fort Worth and were quoted around $17 at country points. Some choice lambs with an end of prime brought up to $18 in the Roswell area for shipment to Texas plants, including Armour in San Angelo.

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Wade Choate of Concho Livestock Co., San Angelo, bought and received 135 good and choice Hereford feeder steers weighing about 850 pounds at $25 from DeWolf & West, San Angelo.

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Dayton Barkley of Gruver bought for Vann Cattle Co., Fort Worth, 200 good Okie steers in that area at $24.

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Young & Cooper, Wichita, Kan., bought 97 steer yearlings weighing 571 pounds at $27 from W.G. Alexander of Laverne, Okla.

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George Porter, Amarillo, bought 150 cutback cows weighing 842 pounds at $12 cwt., and 51 mixed calves weighing about 270 at $78 per head from Ross Rentfro, Amarillo.

30 YEARS AGO

Veribest Cattle Feeders, San Angelo, sold five loads of steers weighing around 1050 pounds and grading 70-80 percent choice at $25.50 to Texas packers.

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Jack Funderburg of Amarillo bought 250 good 650 pound heifers at $24 out of Moody Farms Feedlots at Pampa.

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Hereford Cattle Feeders Inc., Hereford, sold 164 good and a few choice 748 pound heifers at $24.50 to a Shreveport, La. packer.

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Leonard Freis of Amarillo bought 452 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 725-750 at $23.50 from George Doshier of Vega.

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Tom Reed and Charlie Griswold of Amarillo sold 232 heifers weighing 700-750 and grading 60 percent choice at $24.50 out of Hereford Feed Yards to a Texas packer.

25 YEARS AGO

San Angelo Feedyards, San Angelo, sold 1000 fed lambs weighing 100 pounds at $29.50 f.o.b. the feedlot.

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Buckeye Land & Livestock Co., Eaton, Colo., sold 2100 shorn fed lambs weighing about 120 pounds at $29.50 delivered Denver; they carry a 10 cents cwt. discount for each pound over 110.

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Cecil McCoury, Lampasas, sold 300 Angus, Charolais and Brahman cross calves weighing 500 pounds at $43 and $48 to a Northeast Texas buyer.

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John Baxter, Santa Fe, N.M., bought in the Encino, N.M. area 50 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 580 pounds at $45.

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Ducky Gallo, Dalhart, bought and received off grass in the Clayton, N.M. area 400 Okie heifers weighing about 500 pounds at $38.75.

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Blair Cattle Co., Blair, Neb.: 224 steers weighing 1070-1080 lbs., 90% choice, $32.75.

20 YEARS AGO

Joe Baird, Clayton, N.M., sold to Floyd Whatley, Nara Visa, N.M., 135 Hereford and black baldface steer calves weighing 440 and 524 pounds at $44.

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Abilene Cattle Feeders, Abilene: 380 heifers, 800 lbs., 50% choice, $38.50-38.75.

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Scott Campbell, Lasara, Texas, sold 420 crossbred cows weighing over 1200 pounds, ages 2-8 years, at $325 per head to an East Texas buyer.

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Miller Feed Yard, Satana, Kan., bought out of the Oklahoma Panhandle 270 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 650 pounds at $35.50 delivered.

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Donald Leslie, Hugo, Okla., sold to a Texas Panhandle buyer 300 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $39.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 200 steers, 1025 lbs., 75% choice, $41.25.

15 YEARS AGO

Cattle and calves on feed Nov. 1 in the seven leading feeding states totaled 8.12 million, up 14 percent from a year ago and four percent from two years ago. It was the largest Nov. 1 figure since 1978, USDA reported.

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Philip Tate, Clovis, sold to a Texas buyer 500 mixed breed steers weighing 706 pounds from summer pasture at Santa Rosa, at $64.

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Roy T. Fort, Caprock, N.M., bought in the Davis Mountains 450 crossbred heifer and steer calves weighing 394 and 425 pounds at $60 and $65.

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Davis Bros., Milnesand, N.M., sold to a Clovis buyer 220 mostly Hereford and a few black baldface heifer yearlings weighing 700 pounds at $55.

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Radcliffe Estate, Elida, N.M., sold to a Hereford Texas, buyer 63 Hereford heifers and steers weighing 556 and 630 pounds at $52 and $61.

10 YEARS AGO

The San Angelo auction was lower again on slaughter lambs, mostly club types, light kinds $60-65, 115-120 pounds $59-60, a set weighing 128 pounds $55.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 160 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 650 pounds at $67; in Central Texas 300 Brahman steers weighing 600 at $65.

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Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 751.5 million pounds, 1.4 percent below the previous week and 4.2 percent above the same week a year ago.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 700 steers, 1175 lbs., 70% choice, $68; 106 Corriente steers, 1150-1200 lbs., $65.

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Rolston Farms and Feedlot, Verhalen: 141 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $67; 135 steers, 1050 lbs., 58% choice, $66.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 866 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $67.50; 740 heifers, 1000 lbs., 70% choice, $66.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Bill Porter, representing Bluegrass Cattle Co., Bowling Green, Ky., sold out of various Southeast shipping points on a delivered basis to an Oklahoma buyer one load of No. 1½ multi-colored steers and bulls weighing 445 pounds at $86.38; to Texas buyers three loads of No. 1-plus heifers weighing 285 at $291 per head and one load of "semi-short" steers and bulls weighing 650 at $72.

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A small sample of around 10,000 pounds of fall kid hair traded in San Angelo at $1.50-1.75 per pound grease, f.o.b. the warehouse.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 402 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $75.50.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 63 steers, 1150 lbs., 55% choice, $75.50.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 1188 steers, 1150-1250 lbs., 60% choice, $75.50; 186 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $75.50.